Doris Bartholomew's scientific contributions

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... The languages of the Pano and Takana families exhibit a considerable number of lexical and structural affinities that cannot be ascribed to mere chance and are not readily detectable instances of borrowing. After the comparative studies by Key (1968) and Girard (1971) the proposal of a genetic relationship between these two families was generally accepted (e.g., Loos 1973Loos , 2005Suárez 1973; Kaufman 1990;Campbell 1997). Without providing further sound evidence, however, this classification was later put into question (Fabre 1998;Loos 1999;Fleck 2013) and, even today, there is no full consensus as to whether the observed similarities are due to genetic inheritance or long-term language contact. ...